From the artist: I wrote Change Is Coming in response to climate change while sitting in my garden on an unusually hot May day. Riding Low was first released as a single ahead of the 2018 midterms, during a period of protests for seemingly-endless pressing causes, from immigrant rights to gun control. Since then, unfortunately, the pressing causes have multiplied in our country.
Lyrics for Change Is Coming
Lilacs bloom in the heat of May.
Change is coming,
but we got today.
Golden bees dance on the flowers
like Roman flames
in the final hour.
Burn it down.
Drunk with power, we do not see
how our greed
poisons all we need.
Raise a glass to our mother land.
She bleeds in oceans
where we wash our hands.
Count it down.
One more round.
Lilacs bloom in the heat of May.
Change is coming.
Lyrics for Riding Low
Close my eyes before I count to three.
It won’t be long.
Every day they shoot down one more dream.
Still, I stay strong.
Can’t cry or show them my fear.
Can’t breathe: a battle is near.
I’m riding low.
I’m coming slow.
How I long for once-upon-a-time,
safe in my mind.
But, waving flags, they make war on the truth,
cross the last line.
I see the whites of their eyes.
Godspeed, the hour is nigh.
I’m riding low.
I’m coming slow.
I bleed, but I do not die.
I aim. The hour is nigh.
I’m riding low.
I’m coming slow.
We’re riding low.
We’re coming.
Bio: I began writing songs in 2002 at age 38, and since then have released eight collections of "brightly dark" indie folk-rock. I've been lucky to perform at sold-out album release shows at the Filament Theatre, The Old Town School of Folk Music, and the Hideout.
Learn more about Kathy on her website and connect with her on Facebook.